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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] TSN, that's [b]exactly[/b] what it was intended as- remember, Star Wars (CW in particular) is Lucas' sci fi version of the old movie serials he loved as a kid- if you go to starwars.com, there's a great interview with the writers explaining how CW had stories from all of Lucas' inspirations for Star Wars- the Godzilla/Zillobeast, the Seven Samuari/bounty hunters defending the village, zombies/ Geonosian worm parasites, Sink the Bizmark/Destroy Melavolence, etc. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [qb] Looking at that screenshot again, I am amazed that they understood already in 1977 how important it is that spaceship interiors don't have walls meeting the floors straight, which would've made Tantine IV look like a classroom or an old "Doctor Who" set. Curved wall ends and ceilings give that futuristic sci-fi feeling. [/qb][/QUOTE]Soooo right- recall that back then, you had film makers hiring NASA engineers as consultants- Ridly Scott notably did that for [i]Alien[/i], and of course it all started with Stanley Kubrick's obsesive attention to details on [i]2001: A Space Odyssey.[/i] Gotta say, NIM, I don't agree with you at all about Rebels being more "mature" than CW- everything I've seen really seems to be toned down- there's very little people wherever they go- even to an Imperial base, it all seems deserted. I think that's an indication of a seriously smaller budget than CW, which often had crowded streets and many background characters. The effect makes it seem more like an old 80's cartoon- where only the bare minimum of characters would be in any episode to save animation costs. You'd think that they could simply use 3D character models from CW- they made a LOT of background people and tweaked (clothes mainly) them for whatever planet was being used. Also annoying is that several stormtroopers have had the ol' "GI Joe" treatment- where they should not have survived yet somehow do- despite that, there's also this slapstick violence with the stormtroopers that makes them seem even less effective a fighting force than in the movies. The Imperial officers are laughably lame- not so much the guy with the porkchop sideburns, but the rest are charitures of the OT's officers. I know it's a cartoon, but the officer running the training camp had a head so stretched as to look inhuman. I dont know- I love the [i]ghost[/i] and the hero charcater designs (except the kid's anime-blue hair), but the episodes I've seen come arcoss as halfhearted compared to the cinematic quality CW had in it's last three or four seasons. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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